Hello!I have a weird problem. My brother was watching a video on the comp when an "error" popped up and the sound driver stopped working. (obviously he doesn't remember what the error was, sigh!)Well, poking around, I came to the conclusion that the ALSA driver had something to do with it, so I switched it over to OSS one (in the sound preferences) and Hey Presto! It works, I can hear everything.Well not exactly. The transition wasn't smooth, but going through the audio option of the media players and selecting OSS made them work. The thing is, I can't do that for media players that don't have an audio driver option. Case in point, Firefox and Totem.Totem has no option for selecting the audio driver, so playing anything makes the video to appear as if it is muted, though obviously that's not the case. Same case the case for Firefox. Playing online content, like Youtube, has become a pain. I can't hear anything, though downloading the same file and playing it locally produce sound effortlessly.So my question is, how do I coax the whole system to just accept the OSS driver? Alternatively, How do I restore the ALSA driver to working condition?I have a built-in "Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller" sound card, and it has never given me trouble on ubuntu, and until now, worked flawlessly on linux mint too.

I'll give you a standard answer I should have started with I have to dig a bit deeper...You have to tell us more facts. The minimum is exactly which Mint you have - which version and which edition (main or any of the CEs)We also need to know a bit about all your hardware.Run " lspci " in a terminal and post here (to avoid misunderstanding - the first character is a minor L and you copy by marking with the mouse and then right click)Some wifi and possibly built in sound can be connected to USB even if they are internal - if you suspect you have one of these run " lsusb " in a terminal.Also tell us if this is using mint4win or not, quite importantThis is a standard answer so it may not be fully applicable to your situation

Hmm - nothing of interest in your hardwareYou also have a win modem, you can't shut that off and keep sound but that's not your problemI have tried to search for solutions for oss in FF and Totem but did not find muchI don't know if this is still valid but you could make/edit a file in /home/your_name/.gnome2 called totem_configAdd/edit a line so you haveaudio.driver:ossYou can also have alsa and auto hereFor Firefox nothing, but it's normally not FF you hear but flash